Fast Reading Quotes

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

I was reading 'The Mystic Eye' by Sadhguru of Isha Yoga Centre. I couldn't keep the book down and finished it in two-and-half hours.

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

The secret to speed-reading is moving your lips faster.

I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

When something comes to my mind, I finish a book within 15-20 days.

Never use tricky or irrelevant headlines… People read too fast to figure out what you are trying to say.

I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages with a little bit more difficulty.

I've tried to slow this down but realized that my natural reading rhythm is freakishly fast when an author friend asked me to go through the manuscript of her soon-to-be-published book for continuity errors.

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

All modesty aside, I think I'm good at reading scripts. The way I read a script is as fast as I can, all in one sitting, and I don't read many of the stage directions. I only read enough stage directions to let me know where I am, because they're always so verbose and mostly horseshit. So I only read the dialogue, which allows me to see the movie in my mind's eye in real time.

I live in the middle of nowhere and I'm an insomniac. I just make the time and I read and write really fast so that makes a lot possible for me. I wish I had an explanation for it. I'm grateful for it.

I really like listening to books. I listen to them at twice the speed so I can listen to more books.

When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do to a good author, but I've been reading really fast ever since.